You know that you’re getting old when the Minister for Health looks about 16.

REMEMBER a few short years ago when the three main parties in the Dáil, and the Greens, littered the countryside with posters exhorting us to “Vote Yes for jobs” in that infamous referendum. The country voted “yes” and the country got redundancies.

LISTENING to RTÉ today and the aftermath of Paris, and how God’s hand is being blamed for our defeat, I remembered when I was a young boy my father took me to the Mardyke to watch Cork United play one of the leading Dublin teams – Shamrock Rovers or Drumcondra, I cannot be sure.

WE are soon to witness a massively expensive repeat referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and possibly an even more expensive general election.